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March 14th will always be FCA deadline day for me

After several years of almost doing the migration process, I'm finally shutting down a Scaleway instance (from November 2016!!) and migrating it over to Hetzner, which has already shown a very positive performance increase. I'm sure if I kept it in Scaleway, their new instances would be better, but I've got a few other things in Hetzner, and it makes managing easier, as well as a better price point, too!

Today is the three year anniversary of Anna Dodson and me using #Gousto, and it's wild how much of a difference its had on how much we cook, the fact that sometimes we even cook of our own accord, and that we've made a number of the meals ourselves.

We found it to make a good change to our cooking pre-pandemic, and throughout the pandemic it kept us safer, meaning we didn't have to go out and gave us lots of variety in our meals. It's been so convenient and made the weekly shop a fun 10 minute experience of "ooh that looks good".

There's currently a great discount so you - and us - can get a load of money off and see if it's worth it, using my referral code JAMIE21201650

If anyone fancies giving #Gousto a try, there's a very good referral bonus for the next week if you use my codeJAMIE21201650. Its been a hugely important in keeping us fed generally well, cooking through the week, and avoiding risky shopping visits through the pandemic, and there's a tonne of tasty food!

#Reacher was an excellent adaptation, and Alan Ritchson seemed born to play the character so naturally!

One of my favourite topics of conversation - being careful of putting sensitive data in your logs https://www.jvt.me/posts/2022/02/03/common-dangerous-logs/

Really great conversation about the use of domains in government this morning at #ukgc22, led by Terence Eden with some great discussions from the group!

Have you got a blog about #Jenkins #JobDsl? Let me know and we can get it added to https://github.com/jenkinsci/job-dsl-plugin/wiki/Talks-and-Blog-Posts, because we see a lot of traffic from it ☺

Has anyone done anything interesting aside from cloud provider deployments with the #OIDC support in #GitLab and #GitHub? Thinking I may use it as a means to automatically publish notes to my site via #Micropub when publishing a new version of a library

It's been a hell of a week for #TheExpanse - just finished Season 6 and reading Leviathan Falls earlier this week. Feeling a lot of feels, but what an excellent story, and a resolution

Does anyone in the #Go community know if go:embed is meant to work when using go install? I've got a repo that doesn't appear to embed the template when go installing it with go version go1.17.6 linux/amd64, only when go building it

Edit: looks like it's solved itself, and it does work, woops!

Very excited for this Thursday's PHPMiNDS about How to make digital technology more sustainable from @hanopcon

With the ongoing decline of the climate emergency, as well as the increased usage of cryptocurrencies, there's definitely something to think about in terms of how we improve our impact on this dying world

More details can be found on their website or via Meetup

One thing I really like about #GoogleMeet is that there's the little waiting room so you don't need to join early and sit on your own / know if you're running massively late cause everyone's already there

I've shared quite a bit in the past with how great #Gousto has been for our cooking and eating habits, especially over the pandemic, so if you're interested in giving it a go JAMIE21201650 has an especially good deal for 60% off your first box, plus 30% off for a whole month (and we get a little money for the referral) https://cook.gousto.co.uk/raf?promo_code=JAMIE21201650&utm_source=androidapp

Something I've just spotted that's very cool in default #Neovim is that if you join two lines (J) in the middle of a Markdown list, the - is removed. Such a small but meaningful UX improvement!

Think of my new NPM package that provides a test harness for #Spectral API linting as a holiday gift to y'all https://www.jvt.me/posts/2021/12/23/spectral-test-harness/

Anyone thinking of / already using #Spectral for their API linting? I've written up how I've created a test harness to #TDD new API rules into our standards at https://www.jvt.me/posts/2021/12/22/spectral-jest/

What are folks' thoughts about using a password manager i.e. KeepassXC to store TOTP data (not the recovery codes) for MFA? My initial thought is that this sounds like a Bad Idea, but not sure if I'm being a bit too paranoid?

If any of y'all are using #Localstack with Java Lambda projects, I'd recommend updating to v0.13.1 as it includes stay open mode for docker-reuse so you won't be hitting cold starts on each invocation 🙌

Well it's another #ApiDays which means I'm spending ages trying to work out which talk to attend! Very happy it's an online conference so I have a chance to move between stages more easily

Hey @ApiDaysGlobal any idea when you'll make your website accessible? The agenda being a big image with no alt text is really unhelpful for folks, and having to log into the event site to check what's going on is a lot slower than using the website, but appears to be my only choice

Another thing you can now do with #Wiremock 2.32.0 is run your stubs from the classpath, instead of needing to store them outside of a standalone JAR - it's been on my list to document how to do it for 6 months, and I'm glad it's now supported https://www.jvt.me/posts/2021/12/02/gradle-wiremock-standalone-stubs/

Very excited that we've now got support in #Wiremock 2.32.0 to run without the underlying HTTP Server (http://wiremock.org/docs/running-without-http-server/) so you now don't need to use my workaround in https://www.jvt.me/posts/2021/04/29/wiremock-serverless/ 🤓

A few surprises in this year's #SpotifyWrapped (https://open.spotify.com/wrapped-2021/share-bd296b9dba6c4dcfbb3206f7d9ffa4a2-1080x1920?si=BlK7K4mqQj2G4uaA6J3NnA) with @Phaeleh snatching the top spot from a decade of @UppermostMusic and 59501 minutes of music!

Don't know about y'all, but after seeing some of the behind the scenes from the #NottTechParty, I'm very hyped for it 🤶🎄❄️🎁

Has anything recently changed with the way that #GitHub archives work? Finding a tonne of #ArchLinux #AUR packages needing chnages otherwise they won't build, as they're getting 404s?

Although we forgot to get a photo, Carol Gilabert and I had a lovely in-person #HomebrewWebsiteClub Nottingham

If y'all aren't already following Brandur Leach's thoughts on their site, please go ahead and do it. I've spent the morning going through quite a few really well written and informative posts, and have remembered there's a good back catalogue for the Nanoglyph newsletter too which is excellent. Some really great learnings from years of building awesome stuff, thanks for it all!

Moving over to #Neovim was such a good idea - not only are the Async, LSP and general UI improvements making it a nicer experience, but I'd completely forgotten about being able to embed Neovim into other UIs, so this is being written from Neovim embedded into Firefox using the very awesome firenvim project

What do you call a DJ who loves garlic mayo? Steve Aioli

Any idea when #GitHub may stop/nudge users to not add a 👍🏽 emoji to an issues thread?

Don't know about everyone else, but I find it really difficult to find out / remember what versions of libraries are installed on the AWS Lambda runtime - luckily I've blogged about it so you don't have to remember! https://www.jvt.me/posts/2021/11/17/aws-lambda-java-runtime/ (although JDK11 still needs a bit of help)

It's been a few days without y'all reading my ✨ Opinions ✨ so here's one about #OAuth2 client credentials, and why you shouldn't use a client secret https://www.jvt.me/posts/2021/11/09/avoid-client-secret/

Wrote a thing about how we built a team that had great engagement, and highly recommended that others join it - hope it's of some interest! https://www.jvt.me/posts/2021/11/05/secret-sauce/

Just added myself a profile on name.pn at https://name.pn/jamie-tanna for my name, pronouns and pronunciation of my name - great service! I think I'm also going to build a similar thing on my site, too

Do I know anyone who's got an XPS13 9310/9305? I'm looking to upgrade my 9343 to a 9305 and wondered what Linux support was like 👀

Very excited to be virtually attending #ApiDays London over the next couple of jam-packed days! Some really great talks 👀

First trip to the office today, excited to meet my new colleagues and see the White Chapel Building where we're based!

For anyone interested in trying out #Gousto (i.e. via https://www.jvt.me/posts/2019/07/07/four-months-gousto/ which still holds true) there's a better referral deal on for the next couple of weeks with JAMIE21201650 - get 60% off your first box, and 30% off the rest of the month

First day nerves, but very excited to get started at the Data Standards Authority!

Self care is your first back massage in 18 months followed by a free McDonald's chocolate milkshake 😋

I like that Night Teeth looks like Collateral but ✨ Halloween ✨

It's Lighting Talks at #TechNott tonight, which is always a super fun evening - I'll be talking about #salary and some of the Korma-level spice that's come out of my post about it last month https://www.jvt.me/posts/2021/09/09/public-salary-history/

Today is the #Wiremock project's 10th birthday! That's a wonderful milestone to hit - thanks for all the work you've been doing over the years Tom Akehurst - it's made a huge difference for the way I've built software over the years!

#FreeGuy was great - very much recommend a watch!

Hope everyone has a great time at #DataConnect21 (https://dataconnect.api.gov.uk) - there's a packed week of awesome talks, and I'm excited to dip in and out to learn some great stuff happening in the Public Sector!

Is it just me or has the Infinidash hype train run out?

Welp, I'm sure I'll regret this, but I'm publishing my salary/compensation history publicly now!

Blog post: https://www.jvt.me/posts/2021/09/09/public-salary-history/

Numbers: https://www.jvt.me/salary/

First day back at #CapitalOne's offices in Nottingham after a whopping 545 days is a very weird feeling. Got some freebies, a free breakfast, and our first hybrid standup. Been nice to just wave to people, and I'm looking forward to making the most of the day!

The fact that it's September means #Hacktoberfest is only around the corner 😱